CVE-2016-9776 (GCVE-0-2016-9776)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-12-29 22:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:59
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller emulator support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while receiving packets in 'mcf_fec_receive'. A privileged user/process inside guest could use this issue to crash the QEMU process on the host leading to DoS.
References
secalert@redhat.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/8 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94638 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400829 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg05324.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/8 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94638 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400829 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg05324.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 Third Party Advisory
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